Maybe try UniVBE

UniVBE did work! However, the sound does not play correctly with UnivVBE loaded. Solve one problem, try and fix another 🤣.

Weitek P9000 isn't the best choice for your DOS gaming needs. It's really meant to be used exclusively as a Windows accelerator.

Have any pci S3, Cirrus logic, Nvidia, or ati cards to try out?

I do have several cards that I could use. I am trying to keep it 1993 specific though and my Sockcet 4 MB has only PCI and ISA slots. Which means VLB is out of the picture. Are there any PCI choices from 1993 that I could replace the P9000 with that your aware of? Or are there ISA choices that would preform well?

fsmith2003 wrote:

I do have several cards that I could use. I am trying to keep it 1993 specific though and my Sockcet 4 MB has only PCI and ISA slots. Which means VLB is out of the picture. Are there any PCI choices from 1993 that I could replace the P9000 with that your aware of? Or are there ISA choices that would preform well?

You're a bit between a rock (PCI) and a hard place (ISA). PCI in 1993 was very new, and the implementations were often not as refined as a VL-Bus counterpart; VLB would often outperform PCI. There are also very few PCI cards of this vintage: A quick look in 1993 issues of PC Mag and the date codes on certain chips indicate that boards based on the Weitek Power 9000, S3 928, ATi Mach32, Tseng ET4000/W32P and Matrox MGA-II would be your options. Cirrus Logic had no PCI implementations at this time; In 1993, the CL-GD5428 was their top dog, and was still based on the ISA bus.

ISA, on the other hand, was a bit slow for optimal performance by this time, especially with a Pentium, although the CL-GD5428, ET4000/W32, or S3 928 would still be options.

This is keeping the system at 1993 correct. Moving up by one year, the S3 Vision 968 becomes a very tempting option, in my opinion.

When you say it is an accelerator for Windows what exactly does that entail? Does it make for a better GUI experience or something or are certain programs optimized?

To gloss over it quite a bit, Windows accelerators are geared toward the graphics API of Windows, often using bitmap caching and screen-to-screen bitblock transfers. This works great for Win3.x, but is at a disadvantage against framebuffer cards in DOS.

In most cases, the faster a Windows accelerator card is in Windows, the slower it is for DOS.